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Class Impressions

Posted on 2009-01-18 by pappp

I always intend to write down my impressions of classes from the first few days, to compare at the end of the semester. It never happens, but I’ll try again in the new medium:

    * Digital Controls (EE572) /Walcott — Its going to be hard. Its going to be a lot of work. Its going to teach me a whole new model for thinking about things, and make me actually learn the signals material I half-learned in Signals and Systems (EE421). Every expectation that it will be a good course.
    * Solid State Electronics (EE661)/Hastings – The graduate version of EE360 “Introduction To Semiconductor Devices”, which I didn’t really feel like I absorbed as well as I should have. I’ve heard good things about the class and good things about Dr. Hastings’ handling, so I have high hopes.
    * Introduction to Cognitive Science (CS585/CGS500) /Goldsmith – – Definitely going to be a fun course. Lectures are going to be scattered, and the material may not be of much utility, but it will definitely be interesting and fun, and shouldn’t be too time consuming. Looking forward to being able to do some non-technical writing again.

Now I just need to finish attaching myself to some manner of research, and the semester will be away.

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Battlestar Returns

Posted on 2009-01-17 by pappp

Making up very nearly the last piece of watchable SciFi currently running, (Stargate Atlantis ends in one more episode, Eureka is off indefinately, possibly back in July), Battlestar Galactica is back on. I almost never watch TV on TV, I usually get it later from streaming sites or torrents, but since I was avilable and some of the other people in the house were watching, I figured I’d do the live TV thing. Turns out it isn’t actually any more exciting than watching it later from the internet. That said, the show is still dark and novel, and probably the best thing on.

(Next weird FlatPress behavior note “Save&Continue posts, rather than saving as a draft…)

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HELLO WORLD

Posted on 2009-01-16 by pappp

I’ve been considering getting myself some hosting for a variety fo projects for a while. One of the ideas I had percolating was setting up a blog sort of thing, particularly given the “connectedness” of most of my friends and acquantences, and the fact that I find the popular social networking services’ policies totally unpalateable.

Since getting a domain and acceptable cheap hosting would be about $5/mo, prepaid two years in advance, it seems prudent to try it out on a free bit of webspace available to me. Once I have things set up I might even let people know this is here.

I set this up with the FlatPress, since this server has a nice recent PHP version, but the SQL server is either disabled or I don’t have permissions to use it. FlatPress was charmingly easy to set up, so much so that I’m a bit concerned I may have opened engr.uky.edu up to pwnage by accident, I’ll have to poke at it a bit more to make sure I haven’t’ done anything obviously dumb.

On that note, if anyone from UK ECS notices this, am I allowed to be using this space this way? I’m sure it can be construed as somehow significant to my education if it needs to be, and it should be a rather low intensity use.

(also, I managed to lose the first version of this post by hiting another tab in the entry tool and navigating away from the handy little embedded editor without explicitly saving. This is not a feature, but perhaps the “Save&Continue button down there is for that…)

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